Unit 3 Schedule
Week 11 -- Avengers! Assemble!
In-Class
Review Unit 2
Intro to Unit 3
Ethical design/media
Assemble team members
In-Class
MEET in 105 Cockefair Hall
Guest Speaker: X​ iao He
Q&A about collaboration and
proposing solutions to problems
Week 12 -- Design Thinking / ​Pitching Ideas
In-Class
Discuss design thinking process
Create and submit team contracts
Go over pitch assignment
In-Class
Reverse pitch based on mobile app
designs
Teams work on pitches
Week 13 --​ ​ Creating a Journey Map / Form and Content Impact on Knowledge
In-Class
What it takes to make social action
In-class response to pitch ideas
In-class workshop
In-Class
MEET in Royal Hall 310?
Creating and designing mockups
Interaction vs. engagement
In-class workshop (cont).
Homework (Due By Next Class Meeting)
SUBMIT Unit 2 Project
Homework (Due Day of Class Meeting)
WATCH “How to Design Breakthrough
Inventions” (CBS, 2013)
READ “Communities of Practice”
(Wenger-Trayner, 2015)
Homework (Due By Next Class Meeting)
READ Case Studies 25 -27: Learning/Engagement
READ Case Studies 32 - 36: Community/Action
SUBMIT Unit 1 revisions
Homework (Due By Next Class Meeting)
DUE Pitch Idea
READ “Small Change” (Gladwell, 2010)
READ “What Gladwell Gets Wrong” (Tufekci, 2010)
Homework (Due By Next Class Meeting)
READ “Interface as Exordium” (Carnegie, 2009)
READ “Audience Engagement Editors” (Murtha,
2015)
WATCH “Phones are designed to be addicting”
READ Don’t Make Me Think (Krug, 2012)
Homework (Due By Next Class Meeting)
WATCH “Stop Ignoring Black ” (Wilson, 2019)
READ “Matchmaking” (Holmes, 2018)
Week 14 -- Designing for Diversity and Inclusion / Designing Dynamic Texts

In-Class Homework (Due By Next Class Meeting)

Discuss designing for diverse people Continue working on proposals and mockups

In-Class Homework (Due Day of Class Meeting)

Presenting ideas to stakeholders

Develop presentations
Check-ins with teams

Week 15 -- Workshop and Peer Review

In-Class Homework (Due By Next Class Meeting)

Course Review
Team workshop of proposals Meet as groups to continue collaboration
Review of presentations

In-Class Homework (Due By Next Class Meeting)

Reading Day (NO CLASS)

Optional office hours Prepare team presentations
10AM - 4PM (email with specific time) SUBMIT Writing Project 3 (December 12)

Final Exam Week

In-Class Homework (Due By Next Class Meeting)

DUE Writing Project 3

Team presentations to stakeholders Turn in all assignments remaining by December
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